imagine mr. spock going "fascinating"

[labellementeuse]

I hate to be all looking-at-fandom-like-it's-a-zoo-exhibit but here are some things I learned tonight:

1. There are people out there writing 450,000-word The Faculty fic - which is a sequel to a 250,000-word fic.2. People still write 200,000-word Harry Potter fic. Also, Queer as Folk and LOTRPS are both still things. (Seriously?!) (Although I have

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[nrrrdy_grrrl]

Your thirst for random knowledge is a twin-headed bitch-godess.

[labellementeuse]

heh. Well, I don't think it's that random!

[nrrrdy_grrrl]

Okay, so it's more like a buffet of items.

[intertext]

I have really liked Nicola Griffith's books, especially Slow River. Also, for guilty-pleasure reading, the Last Herald Mage series by Mercedes Lackey. Don't know how easy any of these would be to find nowadays, but you never know...

[labellementeuse]

Thank you! It's always worth a poke around - really near my workplace I have a massive second hand shop that specialises in SF&F (they also have a large collection of stuff you can't get anywhere else in Wellington) so there's often a pretty good shot if something's ever been published here that it might be there.

[intertext]

And in fact, I just remembered... I follow Nicola Griffith on Twitter (she's very nice and very interesting) and she announced recently that her books, including Slow River, have just been either reprinted or reissued in e-book format by Gollancz - worth checking out. And the Last Herald Mage is available from the SF book club in an omnibus edition, so you never know!

Oh, and still on the same topic, Swordspoint and its sequel(s) are worth checking out too... my brain has just frozen on the author(s), but you'd find it easily enough.

[morbane]

Ellen Kushner?

[blythely]

lol, was the faculty fic Void?

[labellementeuse]

No (I didn't read it though because it doesn't have Stokely and I just don't get people whose favourite thing about that movie isn't Clea Duvall). Do you mean to tell me there are multiple four-times-NaNo The Faculty fics out there?

[anna_en_route]

Have you tried Tanya Huff's Smoke series?

Main protagonist is a gay 20-something working on a tv series about a vampire detective while trying to maintain a civil relationship with his vampire ex and fight off supernatural nasties.

[kitsuchi]

I co-rec this, and can lend them to you if you like.

[labellementeuse]

I would like that very much! Also I still have books to return to you! We should have a book, um, return/relend. (Erm, can I lend you anything? I'd very much like to!)

[kitsuchi]

That sounds like an excellent plan! And you should lend me things. Actually, if you have any of the Bujold books I would be quite interested in reading those? Or you know, whatever is awesome :D

[the_antichris]

I'm reading China Mountain Zhang at the moment. It's BRILLIANT. Why are her books not everywhere?

The Small Change series (Farthing et seq.) by Jo Walton has a gay protag, but it is maybe too depressing (a horrible WW2 AH), though things get a bit better at the end. A Paradigm of Earth by Candas Jane Dorsey has a protag who isn't exactly gay but certainly isn't heterosexual. It's near-future Canadian SF and I think if you like Maureen McHugh, you'd like it. I got it out of the Wellington library, and with any luck they'll still have it.

[morbane]

One of my favourite comfort sci-fi reads is a novel called Solitaire, by Kelley Eskridge, which does spend a lot of time passing the Bechdel test. The protagonist and her lover are both pretty awesome women.

[the_antichris]

That sounds great - I'll have to look out for it! /not the OP, but always happy to find recs

[labellementeuse]

I have no idea. I loved it and Mission Child SO MUCH.

Thank you for the recs! :)